Peter379
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Post by Peter379 on Oct 13, 2010 22:59:31 GMT -6
I was just lookin through some old old topics over at truckpol and was wondering about all these old guys. Like guys ive heard very faintly about.
Im not sure if this will be cool with admins but I would like to start a topic where people can ask questions and learn about some of these founding fathers of the Trucksim community.
Most of us havent been around these games for long and it would be really cool for some more experienced members to tell us noobs about the retired members. People like sandhawk, Rev keepin the peace, and old admins, people that are completely done with these games.
So if this is alright will Chris, Go ahead and ask questions and comment about members that are know longer part of the community.
If you dont think this thread is a good idea go ahead and shut it down, I just thought it would be nice for newer members to get some info on these old timers
One question that I have is what happened over at trucksims. What was going on with moderators and admins over their? Why exactly did it close?
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Post by Chris on Oct 14, 2010 4:49:49 GMT -6
Oh, you want me to tell you about repman, rev, and sandhawk? Well, they all rage quit. They were founders of the assholes in this community, nothing more or less. None of them were modders and if they were, they weren't very good at it. They were all back stabbers and liars. That's as far as I'm gonna go with them.....
One of the owners of the very first trucksim community was george, aka phatsam. He ran the first (before repman and sandhawk) and last trucksims before he rage quit and got sick of the games. I still play other games with him all the time, he's decent. I don't think it really matters about the old school players as much as the people who influenced yourself since you have been here. That's what matters most, imo...
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Post by signsmasher on Oct 14, 2010 5:22:57 GMT -6
Bryan was cool... don't care much for most of the others (the old ones I might add). Exactly same as Chris said. I found repman to be the worst in particular.
George was also an admin back in the early days of TruckPol, but that didn't exactly last... lol. Again, same reasons as Chris said.
Caspar... well, sometimes he would be great and other times he would be an asshole. He always seemed a bit of a shady character to me, like as if he was two-faced and was the exact opposite of how he acted on the forums. Apparently, if I remember correctly, some of this was actually true, and was part of the reason he got kicked out of the team.
Jay was a moderator there for quite a while too IIRC, and seemed genuine to me. He seemed to try to do the right thing amongst the old admins doing the wrong things, and it didn't mix. Something came up and they got rid of him too.
As far as Trucksims goes, yeah as Chris said, George (phatsam) started it off. Ivan was an admin too, along with Chris. Actually Chris might have been a global mod, can't remember lol, along with luder and Tim (polarexpress17). I think it was me and Rowan a while later who became mods there (can't remember for certain) and also Mitch was for a bit, so was Cody on and off. I'm not going into detail of the reasons for the forum going, but it was based on disagreements over how the place was run and how it had ended up. Plus George had had enough of the whole scene in general anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2010 5:46:23 GMT -6
I can remeber TruckSims , and also RNR v3. Phatsam was cool and the admins were always pretty fair. DAMN! good by to the good ol' days.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2010 7:38:26 GMT -6
I hate to correct you guys but george did NOT start the first Trucksims....that honor goes to Bill Dunsmore....good ol' Bill started trucksims.com which was a canadian site and also started I believe the very first VTC for Hard Truck 2. Ivan should remember since he was a member of that site as well...so was George and Highroller. Repman and Rev came along WAY after the original Trucksims.com shut down.
There were many members from back then that are still around today like I said, Ivan, Highroller, Polarexpress, Outlaw just to name a few. Other members who have fallen by the wayside like Dale3 and George aka Phatsam also played some major roles in the development of this community.
Trucksims.com shut down years ago due to Bill being disgusted with the fighting and the constant threats of his site being hacked. After Trucksims shut down then Truckpol became the place to go in the community and it was a great site until certain people became admins and totally ruined the reputation of the once good site.
There's a lot more I can say about this subject but I'll let it go...let's just say that the founding members of the modding community are those that started the original skinning and modding of the trucks in Hard Truck 18 Wheels of Steel, and 18 Wheels of Steel Across America: NightAngel, Dale3, Polarexpress, BigPeterbiltLover and many many more....thanks to these guys we've been given the passion to continue to mod these games and make them better
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Post by signsmasher on Oct 14, 2010 9:12:26 GMT -6
Oh yeah, I know it wasn't the first Trucksims, but I assumed he meant the latter one. lol. I know that the first one existed but I wasn't around that long ago, so don't know the details.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2010 10:19:08 GMT -6
One place that I loved was Mick's site. Nice place until everything slowed down and fights began. Truckpol was good even great back in 07 around there..Then it all went down hill mick killed his site trucpol and a few others were the only place to go until. George opended up trucksims..Then now were here. I started from like 13 to now. I quit the games it's not the same as cody mentioned. I miss when we just had fun.
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Post by signsmasher on Oct 14, 2010 10:23:25 GMT -6
Jordan's place was cool, wish it was still around. Nice small place to chill
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2010 10:27:50 GMT -6
Jordan's place was cool, wish it was still around. Nice small place to chill I remember when they banned you from truckpol..You and some other dude. My original account is still banned because of that douche bagg banana fag if I could access it I could see when I came on the scene! Jordan was a great modder seems like he got the concept quick. I think he was around here but he left.
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Post by signsmasher on Oct 14, 2010 10:31:49 GMT -6
That was because I was annoying repshit in PMs over how he was an asshat and how he did things. ;D My original account was from February 2008, but I was on a few forums before there.
Anyways, let's not turn this into a rant at old TruckPol topic, moving on...
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Post by Dcving on Oct 14, 2010 10:33:03 GMT -6
lol, ive gotten banned from truckpol more then anybody around, i remeber when trucksims was a private site and no one went in without an invite, micks place was the shit back then...and steves old forum
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2010 10:33:12 GMT -6
That was because I was annoying repshit in PMs over how he was an asshat and how he did things. ;D My original account was from February 2008, but I was on a few forums before there. Anyways, let's not turn this into a rant at old TruckPol topic, moving on... Yeah...I remeber when highroller and harleyoutlaw were very active. Like an idiot I asked for private stuff not knowing. One of my first decent things I made was a cabover dump truck..LOL Still in my photobucket.
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Post by ParanormalPieman on Oct 14, 2010 16:40:58 GMT -6
I've been around long enough to remember DOTPHS, one of the best places to find mods
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2010 17:15:25 GMT -6
One place that I loved was Mick's site. Nice place until everything slowed down and fights began. Truckpol was good even great back in 07 around there..Then it all went down hill mick killed his site trucpol and a few others were the only place to go until. George opended up trucksims..Then now were here. I started from like 13 to now. I quit the games it's not the same as cody mentioned. I miss when we just had fun. I really miss Micks old forum too, It was the classic good old place, I remember them days.. I found that forum a few days after i found Shitpol, Shit then, Still shit now. I remember Kicker, Havn't seen him in a while, I can't remember too many people from back then, I recall hearing few good words about Pat, but i have never seen his work or anything.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2010 17:20:31 GMT -6
One place that I loved was Mick's site. Nice place until everything slowed down and fights began. Truckpol was good even great back in 07 around there..Then it all went down hill mick killed his site trucpol and a few others were the only place to go until. George opended up trucksims..Then now were here. I started from like 13 to now. I quit the games it's not the same as cody mentioned. I miss when we just had fun. I really miss Micks old forum too, It was the classic good old place, I remember them days.. I found that forum a few days after i found Shitpol, Shit then, Still shit now. I remember Kicker, Havn't seen him in a while, I can't remember too many people from back then, I recall hearing few good words about Pat, but i have never seen his work or anything. Pat had some amazing models. Kicker all those guys. Seems like after that alot of us moved on. Remember that blue 379 you saw every time you would login. Badass!
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Peter379
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Post by Peter379 on Oct 14, 2010 17:21:20 GMT -6
Thanks for the info guys. Didnt know their was two trucksims
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2010 18:25:46 GMT -6
I find it pretty sad that people have pretty much forgotten Bill Dunsmore and Trucksims.com.....it was a place that I really enjoyed hanging around
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Post by Dcving on Oct 14, 2010 18:55:58 GMT -6
I really miss Micks old forum too, It was the classic good old place, I remember them days.. oh yeah, when you hacked the fuck out of everything and got caught in public on micks, i remember that like it was yesterday
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Post by BIGmick on Oct 14, 2010 19:01:40 GMT -6
I really miss Micks old forum too, It was the classic good old place, I remember them days.. oh yeah, when you hacked the fuck out of everything and got caught in public on micks, i remember that like it was yesterday ;D ;D You guys make me want to open one up again. Sorta pretty sweet you guys even remember it. But then again its sorta pointless when u got this place. This is a good forum. Plus i dont have to much time on my hands anymore...
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Post by Dcving on Oct 14, 2010 19:22:49 GMT -6
man open up shop again, nothing came close to how cool that place used to be
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Post by Chris on Oct 14, 2010 19:33:30 GMT -6
Honestly, I don't see the point in mick opening a forum again. No forum is ever the same again once it goes down. It would probably just be a waste of time.
Mike, I don't remember him because I wasn't around back then. All I know is george was there close to the beginning, and polar, but they didn't start trucksims. The name sounds familiar, so george probably told me about him once before. Thanks for the correction though, sounds like you got everything in the right order.
And cody, not sure you've been banned more times than me. Atleast 4 times for me, that I can remember. Probably a few more. All from repman and sandhawk.
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Post by Dcving on Oct 14, 2010 19:41:33 GMT -6
repman said his count was like 13 or something, and this isnt including the recent ones, not trying to sound like a badass here or anything
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Post by Chris on Oct 14, 2010 19:43:47 GMT -6
k you win, that's insane lol. and it is badass, you're wrong.
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Post by Dcving on Oct 14, 2010 19:54:05 GMT -6
lol, but i used to get banned for fun back then too...i was moderator there at one point aswell
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Post by slattery93 on Oct 14, 2010 19:58:50 GMT -6
Ive been banned from truckpol wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy to many times haha. I think I'm up near your count cody.
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